Unzueta primarily focused on her grassroots activism, such as her involvement in organizing the annual Dyke March and her work around immigration rights and GLBT issues. While the mainstream GLBT movement is very involved in marriage equality, she said, not all people agree that it is the most important issue, an opinion that was echoed by a few audience members in a Q&A session that followed.
“A lot of young queer people I work with don’t identify with the mainstream GLBT movement,” Unzueta said, stressing that it is important for local GLBT activists to remember that “LGBTQ people are part of other movements,” such as racial equality, universal healthcare, immigration rights, gender equality and other issues. “We are all affected by multiple forms of oppression,” she added. “We need to do a better job thinking of social justice issues as queer issues.”
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Local activists discuss next steps after Prop 8 debacle
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Obama reaction to California Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8
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Nada. Where have you gone, rainbow-colored-logo-Obama of yesteryear when you said: I support the complete repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) - a position I have held since before arriving in the U.S. Senate. While some say we should repeal only part of the law, I believe we should get rid of that statute altogether. Federal law should not discriminate in any way against gay and lesbian couples, which is precisely what DOMA does. I have also called for us to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I have worked to improve the Uniting American Families Act so we can afford same-sex couples the same rights and obligations as married couples in our immigration system.
Summit planners stingy with No on Prop 8 dollars
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With hundreds of LGBT marriage equality advocates expected to attend the Equality Summit in Los Angeles Saturday, January 24 it appears that more than half of those organizing the event failed to contribute to ...
Groups protest Hyatt and Prop 8 in Loop
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Chicago gay groups participated in two protests this past week, both propelled by the November passage of Proposition 8 in California and subsequent protests against them nationwide.
Why We Support the March to Sacramento to Repeal Prop 8Bay Area Indymedia, CAWe were married during the 2004 Winter of Love, and we wed again last year, when California embraced Marriage Equality legally. We are a part of One Struggle, One Fight and the March to Sacramento for three important reasons. ...
DA blames Prop 8 for anti-gay violence (Bay Area Reporter)
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Bay Area ReporterDA blames Prop 8 for anti-gay violenceBay Area Reporter, CAPamela Brown, policy director for Marriage Equality USA, told the BAR that her organization recently completed a survey that listed Sacramento as one of the "hot spots" of anti-gay attacks during the Prop 8 campaign. "Sacramento was the region where we ...
Prop 8 gay marriage ban goes to Supreme Court
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Shannon Price Minter, a lawyer for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, one of the litigants, expressed gratitude for the "extremely fast...
Prop 8 and anti-GLBT violence
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Equality Summit Interview: NCLR Executive Director Kate Kendell
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...with Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, to discuss Proposition 8, Obama's civil rights agenda, and...
Prop 8, ENDA, and an ireland immigration update
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The Uniting American Families Act is in committee, and the online forum loveexiles UK, along with Out4Immigration and Immigration Equality are...
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